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Readers' Perceptions of Authors' Citation Behaviour

AbstractPurpose - To determine the extent to which readers perceive correctly the reasons why authors cite items in scholarly texts.Design/methodology/approach - The authors of ten library and...

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Connecting with new information landscapes: Information literacy practices of...

AbstractPurpose - Purpose: The purpose of the research reported in this article is to understand how refugees learn to engage with a complex, multimodal information landscape and how their information...

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Does Place Affect User Engagement and Understanding? Mobile Learner...

AbstractPurpose - The aim of this research project is to uncover if place-based learning can increase learner engagement and understanding of historical topics. Design/methodology/approach - To study...

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QuikScan Formatting as a Means to Improve Text Recall

AbstractPurpose - QuikScan is an innovative text format that employs three prominent signaling devices—summaries, headings, and access cues—to make the reading of medium-to-long texts more productive....

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Search Result List Evaluation versus Document Evaluation:Similarities and...

AbstractPurpose - In this study, the authors compare the evaluation of search result lists and documents, in particular evaluation criteria, elements, associations between criteria and elements,...

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Nodes and Arcs: Concept Map, Semiotics, and Knowledge Organization

AbstractPurpose - Purpose: The purpose of the research reported here is to improve comprehension of the socially-negotiated identity of concepts in the domain of knowledge organization. Because...

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An exploratory study on social library system users’ information seeking modes

AbstractPurpose - Social library systems are Web 2.0 sites where users discover interesting books, movies, and music, etc., collect these resources to their personal libraries, and share their...

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Contents and structure of abstracts: Comparison of Czech, English and...

AbstractPurpose - Publishers of some scientific journals and the ISO standard require or recommend specific information to be present in abstracts. However little is known whether this is what...

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The three dimensions of informetrics: a conceptual view

AbstractPurpose - The aim of this paper is to propose a conceptual model of the field of informetrics. Specifically, we argue that informetrics comprises the study of entities in three dimensions: the...

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The stranger’s tale: information seeking as an outsider activity

AbstractPurpose - With a departure point in the Schutzian concept of "The stranger", the aim of the article is to examine the usefulness of the concept as a tool for understanding information seeking...

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Patterns of graduate students’ information seeking behavior: A meta-synthesis...

AbstractPurpose - The purpose of this review is to draw out patterns of information seeking behavior of graduate students as described in the empirical research published from 1997 to the...

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Interpreting reference work with contemporary practice theory

AbstractPurpose - In an increasingly competitive field of socially mediated information and knowledge available online, the public library's traditional services are increasingly questioned for...

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A memo of qualitative research for information science: Toward theory...

AbstractPurpose - The purpose of this paper is to advocate for a clearer and less fragmentary use of qualitative research in the increasingly interdisciplinary research setting of information science....

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Building on models of information behaviour: linking information seeking and...

AbstractPurpose - This paper seeks to gain insights from existing models of information behaviour, building on them to develop a new model which, unlike most others, encompasses both information...

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The declining impact of the impact factor?

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Innovation in Information Retrieval: Perspectives for Theory and Practice

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Information Literacy beyond Library 2.0

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Contents and structure of abstracts: Comparison of Czech, English and...

AbstractPurpose– Publishers of some scientific journals and the ISO standard require or recommend specific information to be present in abstracts. However, little is known whether this is what...

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The stranger's tale: information seeking as an outsider activity

AbstractPurpose– With a departure point in the Schutzian concept of “The stranger”, the aim of the article is to examine the usefulness of the concept as a tool for understanding information seeking...

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Patterns of graduate students' information seeking behavior: a meta-synthesis...

AbstractPurpose– The purpose of this review is to draw out patterns of information seeking behavior of graduate students as described in the empirical research published from 1997 to the present....

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